/lit/ - Literature

this sounds fake just because i've only ever seen vonnegut get bashed on /lit/. dude was like john the baptist for reddit.

>>10532522
kurt loved detailing penises. The central character of Slaughterhouse Five has a megacock and doesn't even know it, and he's white.

Also OP's just trying to make Kurt sound like a cuckboy but doesn't know that character is a recidivist nigger that never accomplishes anything

>>10532531
Fake

>>10532506
>He writes, “She would talk bawdily to me and her sons...She was funny. She was liberating. She taught us to be impolite in conversation not only about sexual matters, but about American history and famous heros, about the distribution of wealth, about school, about everything.” Upon reading this statement, it is very clear what Vonnegut’s intentions are through writing and drawing. It communicates the purpose of the images. The image of the asshole, specifically, alludes to his earlier sentiment of maturity and humor, in his friend, Phoebe.

>>10532506
typical kraut faggot

>>10532522
Vonnegut is midwit garbage. Young adult fiction marketed at adults and lauded as "literary".
Belongs next to Harry Potter and any number of philosophical works denouncing free will.

>>10532755
>She would talk bawdily to me and her sons...She was funny. She was liberating. She taught us to be impolite in conversation not only about sexual matters, but about American history and famous heros, about the distribution of wealth, about school, about everything.”

That's the same "nothing is sacred" attitude that denigrates every aspect of american culture, and keeps it there low to the ground. Fuck that shit. There's nothing liberating about being a philistine.

>>10532755
Isn't this Vonnegut's depiction of an asshole?

>>10534022
>>10534001
pseuds. it's great to be more intelligent than you AND have some way to appreciate Vonnegut at the same time. Wish you were here.

>>10532531
>>10534001
you misunderstood me, i cryed fake because op said /lit/ "raves" about vonnegut, which has never happened. nothing to do with kv's teenage shock value.

>>10534022
KV is trolling you and it worked
>>10534238
I don't know how, about you read the fucking quote?

>>10534373
I'm on /lit/, what makes you think I read anything?

>>10534403
Don't ask questions you already have the answers to.

>>10534409
why not?

>>10534022
>That's the same "nothing is sacred" attitude that denigrates every aspect of american culture
which is one of the major elements criticized in Vonnegut's own 'Breakfast of Champions'

>>10534633
Jesus look at this idiot. Trying to get the last word when he already admitted to shitting the bed anonymously on a Vietnamese slide-show web forum

>/lit/ loves Pynchon but hates Vonnegut

It's like loving spearmint and hating peppermint.
Perhaps there is a real distinction to be made but to a sensible person such a stance comes off as petty.

>>10532506
>The following is a true story.
> I walked into a bookstore and picked up Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" after seeing /lit/ rave about it.
>after seeing /lit/ rave about it.
>/lit/ rave about it.

Can we just go ahead and merge this with the Gnome Chomsky thread? Vonnegut practically wrote pornography.

>>10532776
>Vonnegut
>Kraut

>>10534022
>P-PLEASE DON'T OFFEND MY BELIEFS

Literally SJW-tier

>>10535382
Pynchon is one of the greatest living prose stylists in the English language. Vonnegut's paragraphs are indistinguishable from Neil Degrasse Tyson tweets.

Compare:

>While eating as a guest at other people’s homes, I’m thinking their dogs are genetically obligated to-convince you they’ve never, ever been fed.

> There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover
and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was
gibberish sprinkled with question marks.

>· Here is how the pirates were able to take whatever they wanted from anybody else:
they had the best boats in the world, and they were meaner than anybody else, and
they had gunpowder, which was a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulphur.
They touched this seemingly listless powder with fire, and it turned violently into gas.
This gas blew projectiles out of metal tubes at terrific velocities. The projectiles cut
through meat and bone very easily, so the pirates could wreck the wiring or the bellows
or the plumbing of a stubborn human being, even when he was far, far away

>Just an FYI: Energy consumed by the United States in one year equals the energy made by the Sun in one millionth of a second.

> A lot of the people on the wrecked planet were Communists. They had a theory that
what was left of the planet should be shared more or less equally among all the people,
who hadn't asked to come to a wrecked planet in the first place. Meanwhile, more
babies were arriving all the time—kicking and screaming, yelling for milk.

>Had to wait in line to renew a Passport allowing me to visit members of my own species across artificially conceived borders.

>>10534659
And?

>>10536059
Pynchon's style is nothing special, but if that's Vonnegut's style, I finally understand why reddit pseuds find him "mindblowing."

>>10536059
can this actually be real